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Obama predicts 2016 elections: 'Mr. Trump's not succeeding me

Photo: Getty ImagesPresident Barack Obama remains
confident that Donald Trump will not be the next Oval Office
occupant. 'I recognize that there is a deep obsession right now about
Mr. Trump,' he said Thursday evening at a fundraiser, but he again
assured Democrats that won't happen

Obama's latest bold prediction that GOP presidential front-runner is a November loser

'I recognize that there is a deep obsession right now about Mr. Trump'

Obama said, 'And one of you pulled me aside and squeezed me hard and said, "Tell me ... that Mr. Trump is not succeeding you!" '

'Mr. Trump's not succeeding me,' Obama promised a room full of celebs

The
term-limited president has said several times over that he doesn't
worry about a Trump presidency because he believes it won't happen

President Barack Obama remains confident that Donald Trump will not be the next Oval Office occupant.

'I
recognize that there is a deep obsession right now about Mr. Trump,' he
said Thursday evening at a fundraiser, 'And one of you pulled me aside
and squeezed me hard and said, "Tell me ... that Mr. Trump is not
succeeding you!" '

Obama said he told the Democrat, 'Mr. Trump's not succeeding me.'

The
president told attendees of the Democratic Congressional Campaign
Committee fundraiser in Los Angeles, at the Walt Disney Studios Chairman
Alan Horn, that Trump and Senator Ted Cruz, also vying for the GOP
nomination, were helping, not hurting the party's chances of winning in
November.

'Mr.
Trump has actually done a service as Mr. Cruz is doing a service and
that is laying bare, unvarnished some of the nonsense that we have been
dealing with in Congress on a daily basis,' Obama argued, according to
ABC News.

He said, 'People act as if these folks are outliers but they are not!'

'We
should thank Mr. Trump and Mr. Cruz for just being honest that this is
how we're thinking these days, or not thinking these days.'

And he told them, 'it gives you a sense of what's at stake in this election.'

Tickets to the Bel-Air fundraiser ranged from $15,000 a person to $66,800 per couple.

The
president told attendees of the Democratic Congressional Campaign
Committee fundraiser in Los Angeles, at the Walt Disney Studios Chairman
Alan Horn, that Trump and Senator Ted Cruz, also vying for the GOP
nomination, were helping, not hurting the party's chances of winning in
November

The
term-limited president has said several times over that he doesn't worry
about a Trump presidency because he believes it won't happen.

He told NBC's
Matt Lauer on the eve of his State of the Union address in January,
'I'm pretty confident that the overwhelming majority of Americans are
looking for the kind of politics that does feed our hopes and not our
fears, that does work together and doesn't try to divide, that isn't
looking for simplistic solutions and scapegoating.'

Photo: AP Senator Ted Cruz,

The Democratic president reiterated his optimism during a press conference a month later.

'I continue to believe Mr. Trump will not be President,' he told an NBC News Correspondent during a news conference.

Obama
said 'the reason is because I have a lot of faith in the American
people, and I think they recognize that being President is a serious
job. It’s not hosting a talk show or a reality show. It’s not promotion.
It’s not marketing.'

The
president and his spokesman have become more aggressive about putting
down Trump since the 2016 nomination contests began and the
billionaire's ascent to the White House became a possibility.

Even
as Obama has said he did not think Trump would win this past January,
he dedicated his final State of the Union address to redirecting the
country away from Trump's proposals and toward a more inclusive path.

His
pleas to Americans not to embrace the New York real estate mogul who's
called for an indefinite ban on Muslims has not succeeded, however, and
Trump has won contest after contest, as has Cruz, another Republican
candidate the president derides.

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